Towel-retainer.



T. HEINS L E. R. GALLAND. TOWEL RETAINER. -APPLIOATION FILED `(IULYM,1912.

' 1,078,501, Patented Nov. 11,1913.

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THEODORE HEINS ANI) EDWARD R. GALLAND, UF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

TOWEL-RETAINER.

Y Specification of Letters Patent Patented Nov. 1 1, 1913.

Application filed July 24, 1912. SerlalNo. 711,348.

I To all Awhom t may concern:

Be it known that we, THEoDouE Heins and EDWARD R. GALLAND, citizens ofthe United States, residing at San Francisco, in the county ofSanFra-ncisco and State of California, have invented a new and use fulTowel-Retainer, of which the following is a specification in such fulland clear terms as will enable those skilled in the art to construct anduse the same.

This invention relates to a towel retainer and its object is to providemeans whereby a supply of fresh towels may be left in a restaurant,saloon2 or oiiice, while at the same time, an individual towel isprovided for each person, but which towel cannot be removed from theretainer, thus preventing the loss of towels.

It will be understood by those skilled in the art that it is common foroilice and restaurant supply laundries to furnish a given number oftowels per week for the use of patrons. These towels are usually left ina cabinet loose and inevitably disappear in larger or smaller numbers,which disappearance is avoided by the use of the retainer hereindisclosed.

In the drawings in which, the same nu meral of reference is applied tothe same portion throughout the several views, Figure 1 is a sideelevation of the retainer com- A plete, Fig. 2 is a front elevation ofthe retainer, Fig, 3 is a plan view of the retainer. Fig. 4 is ahorizontal'sectional View of one of the brackets for holding the towelsupport, Fig. 5 is a view of the end of one of the towelsupports showinga groove therein for lockingsaid support in place, Fig. 6 is a frontelevation of one of the brackets for holding the towel support with therock retainer removed therefrom, and Fig. 7 is a sectional view on anlenlarged scale showing a portion of the towel supporting tube andshowing the catch used to prevent the towels permitted "to allow thetube 4 to slip down far enough to be removed from the bracket 2.

The supporting brackets comprise a flatdislolike portion 6, from whichdisk a hol- -low boss 7 extends. The hollow boss has an -The plug 10 hasa slot 14 therein for the insertion of a key to push the lock 9 back outof engagement with the rod or tube as the case may be. i

In order to retain the towels upon the upper portion of the tube 4, aspring catch 15 is used. This catch has a portion 1G extending through asmall hole in thc tube 4, and

it has a small projection at 17 to bear against the bottom of the tubeand thus give the necessary spring to the catch.

BothV the tube and the rod have the ends thereof, which are inserted inthe brackets, beveled, as shown at 18 and each of them has a groove asshown at 19 for the lock to pass into to secure the tube and rod inplace. order to strengthen the tube t, it has a rod inserted thereinwhich terminates at the dotted line indicated at 20. It will beunderstood that any suitable form of lock may be used for securing therod and tube in their proper places.

n use a considerable number of towels are placed upon the upper portionof the tube 4., each towel having a suitable gromet placed in one cornerthereof for hanging the towels on the tube. When used the .first towelis pulled down over the latch and after being used is drop ed down onthe rod 5 out of the Way, a

4.5 from falling olf the support."` The towel support may be turned fromfrfar enopghto prevent its removal therefrom,

while at the same time, enough movement is side to side, it beingindicated in Fig. 3 as"L turned from the right of thesupporting bracketso that the supporboccupies as littleV space as possible.

Having thus described our invention what.

we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the UnitedStates, is as follows: v

1.*A. towel retainer comprising a support,

brackets carried thereby, a towel supporti-ng rofl' having ehorzontalportion uid e clown- Woielly extending poiou, means to looksaid rod to the brackets and to permit seid rod to be turned about anafxis parallel 'to the support and passing through alle bracketsi andmea-ns to loosely retain the towels upon the substantially horizontalportion of tlieiod, substantially as desolioecl.

2. lu e owel ieteiuer, a support, two brackets ear-fied thereby, ajoined rod suppoitecl by seid brackets and movable about an axis undpassing through both of seid oieokes means to lool; ille ends of therocl M @oplos of 'this meu 3:12131 'be cbtaiue for m'e aegis each, hyade-'essug the Gommissoner of eaents, Washington, E.

emessi io *lie bieekets, and a spring catch carried upon the upei'poition of the rod to loosely 15 ietain towels placed thereon,substantially es described.

ln testimony whereof We have hereunto set our hands this 17 day of JulyA. D. 1912, in "alie presence of lie two subscribing Wt- 20 messes.

THEGDORE HEINS, A EDWARD R. GALLAND. ll'viaiesses C. P GRIFFIN, L. E.ANDERSON.

